Nails
Present
Present - acrylic, plywood, nails, bottlecaps
An infinity symbol bisects another infinity mark and reclaims consciousness through action.
Discarded bottle caps have been flattened into the round like a tumbled rock, worn down and smooth edged. Flattened bottle-caps can be found everywhere from Arrowtown to Potosi, ubiquitous and abandoned on the path. Indicative of convenience and tossed to the street they are slowly, anonymously, invisibly crushed by wheels of vehicles and by peoples’ feet. A small circle of colour removed from its original purpose has been forgotten, lost and transformed.
The underlying surface of Present replete with painted dots corresponds with the conscious mind, each of the marks deliberate, aware. This foundation peers through yet is partially eclipsed by a layer of bottle caps collectively representing unconscious processes. These caps retrieved from the byways and highways are sandwiched between layers of intention. From the exterior, painted nails determinedly pierce through each bottle cap to reconnect the probity of the inner to the outer. A layer of ‘unknown’ and ‘unknowing’ captured between two measured schemes of colour and design, the insentient skewered by resolve. The cycle has been completed to form the present moment where endless action and inaction are in balance.
Contradiction

The Contradiction of thought versus thoughtlessness.
The discarded and the collected.
Order and disorder, intentioned and unintentional.
The discarded and the collected.
Order and disorder, intentioned and unintentional.
Crab
A Mangrove crab uses its mouth parts to filter nutrients from the mud. Here we are looking head on to face the crab as it feeds.
Oxbow
An Oxbow is a lake left behind from a bend in a river that has since changed course. The oxbow holds the shape of the river like a memory.